Crime Quotes - Page 29

• For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Sight, Criminals, May

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.11, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

  Ariana Franklin

  Firsts, Happy Endings, Proof

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• Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

  Ariana Franklin

  Names, Identity, Addresses

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• Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

  Alafair Burke

  Dope, Intelligence, Sides

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan

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• suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Suicide, Successful, Guarantees That

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• even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

  Frances Noyes Hart

  Witty, Believe, Punishment

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• most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Hunger, Connected

  Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

  Karin Slaughter

  Wall, Twenties, Cockroaches

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• Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today.

  Kweisi Mfume

  Hate, America, Speech

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

  Isabel Allende

  World, Unjust, Unfair

  Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. June 06, 2003.

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• There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Children, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park.

  Tom Marino

  Years, Drug, Parks

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

  Al Sharpton

  Running, Gun, Cop

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I've bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 - a Buick every time. They always work, I don't care what color it is. I don't want people to recognize my car in case I want to commit a crime.

  John Waters

  Men, Color, People

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.

  Tom Cruise

  Communication, Fighting, Drug

  "Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 27, 2005.

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• Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money.

  Megan Fox

  Real, Iphone, Age

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Class, Issues

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Cutting, Thinking, Years

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Gerry Khermouch, www.bloomberg.com. July 30, 2001.

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• Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Lying, Knowing, Age

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• The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

  Elsa Barker

  Firsts, Bears, Mystery

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• Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt
  Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on
  The troubled waters of a lake,
  'Twill form in circles round succeeding round;
  Each wider than the first.

  George Colman the Elder

  Lakes, Circles, Water

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• The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Writing, Men, Media

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• The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

  African Spir

  Demand, Interest, Equity

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

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• no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.

  Antoinette Bosco

  Use, Statistics, Amnesty

  Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”

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• Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.

  Thomas Dubay

  Prayer, Book, Humble

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